The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-18
BETSY SEES THE SIGHTS.
She Visits the Piedmont Exposition and Tells
What She Saw.

What She Saw.
ATLANTY, Georgy. October 10, 18S7.-Long
as some of you'uns never gifts out of the valley
to see nothin, included to tell you about my
trip up hero to the Piedmont exposition. If
you'uns could look over here and see the
crowds and crowds of folks that come to see it
from ever'whars, you'd think they hadn't left
no body whar they come from.
If you uns could er saw our
gang at the Talladegy depot fore we started,
you'd thought Sells circus was done tuTnt
loose in town and all the wild critters uncaged
in partickler Tom Davis, he's SIGH a monkey.
He had on blue shirt, a white standin' collar,
a red crayat with the eends flynn ont over
his shoulders, navy blue breeches half way his
knees, brogan shoes and striped socks hangin'
over his shoe tops. He wore his red
jeans coat his nanny woye in the loom at
home for him. The buttons struck him most
half way up his back, looked like he'd out
growed it. His hair was standin' straight
up like it alters does, and when he taken off
his hat to make me bow, that same little on
ruly lock that he put the 'lasses on one time,
when he come Courtn' er roe, stood up like
the tail of one Of them fan tail pigeons out at
the exposition. He pinned his little flag ON
his coat like button hole bouquot--tother
boys had ther'n i'll their hats-and
let the cornder of his WALLER cotton hankerchcr
stick outn his side pocket, and was so full OF
musk itnearly knocked us down. He liked it,
and thought ever body else did. He stood
around and grinned like q sick postum, and
was the best satisfied boy in the crowd.
ky Robertson, he acted the clown, and said
fool things, and Buddy, he was the ringmaster
to ag him on, and ever time he opened his
mouth whether it WAS funny or not, the whole
crowd laughed. Liz flasher, she was diled
out in red kalicker trimmed Ill white cotton
braid.
Mol Freshours she was plum circus her
SET with all that ar black cotton lace on her
speckled kaliker frock, and that same old col
lar with the cape of it outside like she alters
wears it, You can't laTn her notlin, she
knows more about the fashions than anybody
can tell her.
Her and Becky Jane Rountree was together
and never done nothn' but giggle at ky Rob
erson. 1t would take mo all day to tell You
how old Miss Patience Potter was rugged out,
and about the starch on her face, enough to
make q biscuit She looks about like beam
pole and alters puts on three times as much
as anybody else.
That 'oman's been a sayin' up old "arty-
ficials," and rihbins, and feathers and things TO
trim hats il, for the last fifteen Or twenty
year, and | know IN reason when she started
up here she hauled out the last one of 'em and
stuck em ON her hat.
Cacdony lowed Miss Patience was reglar
side-show herself
What dyou thinl<-mc and Cousin Pink and
CaledOny oil got our frocks Oh'n the same piece
bought the whole bolt to keen anybody else
from a havin' one ike it-and lo and behold
when we got to the depot, thar stood the three
Thatchcrson gals with frocks olf'n tho same
piece pine blank like Gur'n. You see thoy
seed ourn at meotin' the Sunday before.
Cousin Pink was mad as blaZe3, but ] thought
Caledony would kill her fool sof laughin'.
We couldp hep ourselves then; we never
fetched nair nuthcr dress didn't want TO be
pestered with nc trunk, and to cap it all, them
gals tags right along after us and you may de-
pend upon it, We air plum show. They hain't
got nutlin' out thar at the the exposition, less
hits Meanss High school, that beats our gang
for being dressed alike
Buddy he laughs ftten TO die and says It
puts him in mind Of 1.-TWO ducks before two
ducks, two ducks behind two ducks, two ducks
between two ducks" But me and Cal and
Cousin Pink feels moro like three geese rs any
thing else.
Them "Possum Valley" "simnon Ridge"
and "Sassyfac Thicket 'crowdsiall come up the
same day we did and when we III on'n the tars
at the shed the boys ris yell and hollcred
"Hurah for ClcYclandr Then we scattered
out and pcrised around town ard seed the pic
tur' VI Cleveland his vile stuck mp ever wiars
all kivered with red, white, and blue and tho
United States flags flynn from The Timball
house and custom house and court house and
all tho big stores and ever little boy had one
in his hand and a exposition badge pinned
On bis coat and the brass bands was
ali a-rriiea.1 ri and tho military
companies all a maTCiTi7711-Jand the streets
packed and TANNED full Of folks TO see Ran.
dali. They made a sight Of fuss over RandaffT~
Pap dono his leyelest best TO git to him TO
shake hands with him, but couldn't git in
half a mile Of him never even gecd him.
lie lows he is gwine 10 shake hands with
President Cleveland when he comes II he haJ
TO walk over somebody's head to do IL. That's
the main thing that fetched him up here. He's
done saw Gordon and Grady and chuck hands
with en.
We seed funny thing at the FIRE works last
night.
Tho whole place was alivo with 4Olk, somo